Summary:
There is one school in this area: Stepstone Academy, an elementary school serving grades K–8 with 186 students enrolled in Cleveland, Ohio, operating within the Stepstone Academy district. Because only one school is listed, there is no cross-school comparison to make; the picture below is about this school on its own. The district currently ranks 680 of 773 Ohio districts, in the 12th percentile with 1 star, and the school ranked 1,219 of 1,560 in 2025–2026 (22nd percentile, 1 star). That is up from 1,617 of 1,678 in 2015–2016 (4th percentile, 0 stars), so the trend is improving but the school remains in the bottom quartile.
On the 2025–2026 Ohio State Tests, the school exceeds the state in only 1 of 14 grade-subject tests: 3rd grade English Language Arts at 72.4% proficient, against a state figure of 63.4%. Third grade math is close to state at 60.7% versus 62.1%. Nearly everywhere else the gaps are large. The overall average is 29.9% proficient versus 60.1% statewide. Math averages 25.6% versus 57.6%, science 11.5% versus 62.0%, and ELA 40.4% versus 62.1%. Grades 3–5 average 39.5% against 63.8% statewide, while grades 6–8 average 20.3% against 56.4%. Some individual results are extreme: 5th grade math at 0%, 5th grade science at 5.3%, 6th grade math at 7.7%, 8th grade math at 11.8%, and 8th grade science at 17.6%.
Two other numbers stand out for families. Chronic absenteeism is 72.2% in 2025–2026, meaning roughly 7 in 10 students are chronically absent — a serious barrier to learning and to test performance. The student-teacher ratio is 15.5 in 2024–2025, implying roughly 12 teachers for 186 students, and per-student spending was $16,494 in 2018–2019, a figure that is dated relative to current outcomes. Free/reduced lunch status is not reported, so economic need cannot be assessed from this data. With enrollment this small, a single grade's percentage can shift sharply from one cohort to the next, so the broad patterns — early literacy strength, weak middle-grade math and science, and high absenteeism — matter more than any single result.
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